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Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds of images that represent systems of thought and ways of doing things. Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature shows how these images fostered what Elizabeth Eisenstein called "brainwork" related to concepts of space, truth, art, and nature, and reveals their importance to poetry by Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and Aphra Behn's Oroonoko. The genres of illustration considered in this book include military strategy and tactics, garden design, instrumentation, Bibles, scientific schema, drawing instruction, natural history, comparative anatomy, and Aesop's Fables. The argument produces unique insights into the ways in which visual rhetoric affected verbal expression, and the book develops novel methods of using printed images as evidence in the interpretation of the rich, strange, and beautiful literature of early modern England.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature
• Author: Katherine O Acheson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 186
• EAN: 9780754662839
• ISBN: 0754662837
• ID: 02364355
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 492 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 154 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. August 2013

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